Maurice's Bar / Maurice's bar
Tzor Edery, Tom Prezman
France, Israel / 2023 / 15' 0''Screenings
Synopsis
In 1942, on a train to nowhere, a former drag queen remembers a night from her past in one of Paris’ first queer bars. Remnants of customer gossip recall this mythic bar and its mysterious Jewish-Algerian owner.
Tzor Edery is a non-binary filmmaker and multi-disciplinary artist based in Tampere, Finland. Tzor has graduated in 2019 from the department of Screen Based Arts at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, and works in multiple fields including illustration, textile, tattoos, printmaking and sound. Their work focuses on immigrant and minority experience, the passing down and disappearance of cultural memory, and queer lives and history, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa.
Tom Prezman is a visual artist and filmmaker, exploring both animation and live action. He writes and directs while incorporating his own family history and queer experiences. Tom utilizes his skills in film editing and cinematography in his own projects and has a passion for foreign languages. Tom graduated in 2019 from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, with a BFA in Animation.
Director
Tzor Edery, Tom Prezman
Production
Sacrebleu Productions
Music
Tzor Edery
Animation
Tzor Edery, Tom Prezman, Aude, David, Nathanaël Sonn, Fayrouz Harmatallah
categories
WORLD PANORAMA 2